Comment fonder théoriquement des indicateurs culturels? Issue de problèmes méthodologiques reliés à l’étude des rapports entre le temps de travail et le temps libre, cette question émerge à la suite du constat du déficit théorique de la statistique culturelle. En…

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Abstract: This study examined the discursive dynamics between physicians and patients in order to understand associations between physicians’ communication patterns and patient satisfaction. Fieldwork was conducted in a clinic in northern British Columbia. Thirty-one physician-patient consultations were audiotaped, and follow-up…

Abstract: Canada’s no-fly list is examined here as a biopolitical plot line of the “war on terror”: one that is constructed on techno-scientific language and practices that authorize and legitimize “us” versus “them” discriminatory dichotomies and thinking. Given that the…

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O projeto LAC Biosafety é constituído por dois componentes ?América Latina: construção de capacidade multipaíses para atendimento ao Protocolo de Cartagena sobre Biossegurança? e ?Capacitação para comunicação e percepção pública?. O projeto vem sendo desenvolvido em conjunto com pesquisadores do…

ABSTRACT This article considers issues of social cohesion, national identity, and national values as they appeared in Canadian newspaper coverage of the same-sex marriage debate between September 2003 and the federal election of June 2004. Media reports in Canada about…

This research in brief explores Canadian political consultants’ practices in political marketing, exploring whether they are, as democratic critiques of marketing often argue, encouraging politics to become poll-driven, and whether they fit into previous international studies on consultants in other…

Childhood obesity has prompted an increased scrutiny of the foodscape, along with the call for innovative strategies to make our social environments more supportive of healthy eating. Child-targeted supermarket foods are an increasing, but typically overlooked, part of this food…

Tens of thousands of oral history interviews sitting in archival drawers, on computer hard drives, or on library bookshelves have never been listened to. Thousands of new interviews are being added each year by the many large testimony projects now…